Openvan Travel MCP Server

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Openvan Travel is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 14 tools. Last commit 1 Sep 2026.

Vanlife & RV travel data. Fuel, weather, currency, events, news. https://openvan.camp/en/developers

Uptime history 52 days of history

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

250 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 1 Sep 2026

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 1 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

1 Sep 3 tools appeared check_visa_rules, get_route_visa_rules, get_vehicle_import_rules

1 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for compare_fuel_prices, find_cheapest_fuel

1 Sep a tool description was rewritten get_fuel_prices

1 Sep a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Openvan Travel every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add openvan-travel --transport http https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openvan-travel": {
      "url": "https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.openvan-travel]
url = "https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openvan-travel": {
      "url": "https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openvan-travel": {
      "url": "https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 14

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

compare

compare_fuel_prices

Compare current prices for one fuel type across 2-10 countries. Returns sorted table cheapest-first.

compare_vanbasket

Compare food price index between two countries (world average = 100). Higher number = more expensive food.

vansky

get_vansky_weather

Get VanSky vanlife weather suitability score (0-100) for a country: van_score, sleep_score, solar yield, driving conditions, awning safety, condensation risk, 7-day forecast.

list_vansky_top

List the top N countries with the highest VanSky van-travel suitability score today.

cheapest

find_cheapest_fuel

Find the cheapest countries for a given fuel type in a region (or worldwide). Useful for route planning.

currency

get_currency_rate

Convert an amount between two currencies using live rates (150+ currencies, daily updates).

event

get_event

Get full details for a single vanlife event by its slug.

events

list_events

List vanlife events: expos (Caravan Salon), festivals, meetups, forums, road trips. Filter by status, type, country, or free-text search.

fuel

get_fuel_prices

Current retail fuel prices for all API-supported countries. Supports the same price keys as /api/fuel/prices, including gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG, E85, kerosene and grade variants. Pass country_code to get one country in detail; omit it for a summary list.

route

get_route_visa_rules

Visa rules for every country of a route in one call, for up to 10 passports at once, plus the tightest leg of the route.

stories

search_stories

Search aggregated vanlife news stories (7 languages, 400+ sources). Filter by search query, category, country, locale.

vanbasket

get_vanbasket

Get VanBasket food price index details for one country.

vehicle

get_vehicle_import_rules

Temporary admission rules for a foreign-plated vehicle in one country: allowed days, per entry or per window, carnet requirement, green card. A country without a rule we can stand behind returns nothing rather than a guess.

visa

check_visa_rules

Entry rules for one passport and destination: entry mode, allowed length of stay, how the days are counted (per entry or in a rolling window), whether a visa run resets the counter, and temporary vehicle import. Answers carry a confidence level and source — pass those on instead of stating a rule as certain.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp	streamable-http	answering	235 ms	0 min ago

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Openvan Travel — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Openvan Travel do?

It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_visa_rules, compare_fuel_prices, compare_vanbasket, find_cheapest_fuel, get_currency_rate, get_event and 8 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Openvan Travel mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around compare and vansky. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Openvan Travel working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 250 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Openvan Travel?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Openvan Travel need an API key?

No. Openvan Travel completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Openvan Travel?

It answers our handshake in 250 ms on average, which is faster than 62% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Openvan Travel open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.